What Is Human Geography?

________ (1724- 1804) taught at the University of Königsberg and is best known for his work in logic and metaphysics.

________ wrote a book on world geography that corrected many of Ptolemys errors.

________ was a historian who wrote at length about the relations between humans and the environment.

________ is described as one of the best- known travelers who journeys extensively in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

In 1650, ________ (1622- 50) Geographia Generalis remained the standard geographic text for at least a century.

________ summarized most mathematical traditions in his eight- volume Guide to Geography and produced a world map including a grid system that includes mapping procedures still used todayTHE FIFTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES: GEOGRAPHY IN EUROPE, CHINA, AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD.

________ devised a grid system of imaginary lines on the earths surface mapping longitude and latitude.

________ (1488- 1552), a contemporary of Apian, produced Cosmography in 1544, the first major work following the initial burst of European expansion activities that included descriptions of the earths major regionsGEOGRAPHY RETHOUGHTVARENIUS.

________ and Ritter were the first geographers to pay full attention to concept formulation to the derivation of general statements from the detailed factual information available.

Establishing ________ at sea was not available until 1761 and was not used on a major voyage until Cooks second in 1772- 5MAPPING.

The ________ were the first civilization to become geographically mobile and to establish colonies.

________ summarized literary traditions as encyclopedic descriptions in Geographia.

Die Erdkunde was only partially complete world geography comprising 19 volumes published between ________ and 1859 with topics ranging from interests such as moving from description alone to description and laws.

Chinese and ________ geographies prior to the fifteenth century were roughly comparable to Greek geography.

________ (1512- 94) was undoubtedly the most influential of the new map- makers.

Chang Chien discovered the ________ in 128 BCE.

________ (1254- 1323) was a Venetian who visited China and wrote descriptions of the places he saw.

________ wrote about possible relationships between latitude, climate, and population density, and speculated about the ideal locations for cities and the conflicts between rich and poor groups.

In ________ (1802), Kant asserted that geography and history together comprise all knowledgeUNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY 1800- 1874.

________ produced the first modern atlas in 1570 that ran into 41 editions by 1612GEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION.

________ reached Asia by sailing west (1519- 22)

________ was calculated by the angle of a suns shadow, but longitude was more difficult due to a lack of resources to measure time precisely.

________ were prominently in use during the Han Dynasty.

________ made three voyages into the Pacific (1769- 80)

During the early phase of the European ________, science, in general, changed from being a practice controlled by the church to one concerned with the acquisition of knowledge.

________ provided an explicit definition of geography as the study of the state of the earth, both h physical and human, and also emphasized the need for both detailed description (what he (Bernhardus Vareniuss) called special or particular geography) and generalizations (what he called general or universal geography.

________ were the most practical and depicted a series of radiating lines to correspond to points of a compass.

________ (1495- 1552) was a map marker and writer who in 1524 published a book that divided the earth into five zones (one torrid, two temperate, and two frigid) and provided notes on each continent and listed major towns.

________, showing small areas in considerable detail, became possible with the development of exact survey techniques in eighteenth- century France.

In the ________, Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth.

________- viewed the individual as apart from nature.

________ was considered so important that governments began to assume responsibility for the task and in England, the Ordnance Survey was founded in 1791.

The ________ were drawn by scholars with expertise in astronomy, geometry, and mathematics.

________ and Carl Ritter were two German scholars who dominated geography in the first half of the nineteenth century.

The ________ was founded in the seventh century CE by the prophet Muhammad /At the same time, Eurp [e was immersed om the Darl Ages.

________ is not geography but it furnished new facts and provided the basis for new maps, books, and descriptive geographies.

The first ________ were civil servants who drew and revised maps in the service of the state.

________ used a mixture of fantasy and dogma.

________ were symbolic statements, asserting the states ownership of some territory.